Ernest Ansermet - The Royal Ballet Gala Performances - Analogue Productions LP

180-Gram Double LP — Gatefold Jacket with Integrated Multi-Page Book, Mastered by Bernie Grundman from the Original Analog Tape

One of the most beloved RCAs ever recorded, The Royal Ballet Gala Performances captures Ernest Ansermet conducting the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in 1959. Recorded in London's Kingsway Hall by producer Michael Williamson and engineer Kenneth Wilkinson, it gathers favorite passages from The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, Coppelia, Les Sylphides and more in lustrous, spacious sound. Mastered by Bernie Grundman from the original analog tape, pressed on dead-quiet 180-gram vinyl at Quality Record Pressings, and housed in a Stoughton Printing tip-on gatefold with an integrated 22-page illustrated book on the history of ballet.

Features

• 180-gram double LP
• Gatefold tip-on jacket with integrated 22-page illustrated book
• Mastered by Bernie Grundman from the original analog tape
• Plated and pressed at Quality Record Pressings
• Label: Analogue Productions

Track Listing

Disc One:

1. Nutcracker Suite – March
2. Nutcracker Suite – Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
3. Nutcracker Suite – Arabian Dance
4. Nutcracker Suite – Chinese Dance
5. Nutcracker Suite – Dance of the Toy Flutes
6. Nutcracker Suite – Waltz of the Flowers
7. La Boutique Fantasque – Tarantella
8. La Boutique Fantasque – Andante Mosso
9. La Boutique Fantasque – Can-Can
10. Coppelia – Introduction (Allegro Marcato) and Mazurka, Act 1
11. Coppelia – Introduction (Andante) and Waltz, Act 1
12. Coppelia – Czardas, Act 1
13. Coppelia – Valse de la Poupee, Act 2
14. Giselle – Introduction and Waltz, Act 1
15. Giselle – Pas de Deux and Variation, Act 2

Disc Two:

1. Swan Lake – Dance of the Little Swans (Pas de Quatre), Act 2
2. Swan Lake – Pas de Deux, Act 2
3. Swan Lake – Waltz, Act 2
4. Carnaval – Pierrot
5. Carnaval – Reconnaissance
6. Carnaval – Aveu
7. Carnaval – Pantalon et Columbine
8. Sleeping Beauty – Introduction: The Lilac Fairy, Prologue
9. Sleeping Beauty – Rose Adagio, Pas d'Action, Act 1
10. Sleeping Beauty – Waltz, Act 1
11. Les Sylphides – Overture: Prelude in A Major, Opus 28, No. 7
12. Les Sylphides – Mazurka in C Major, Opus 67, No. 3
13. Les Sylphides – Grande Valse Brillante in E Flat Major, Opus 18